Tyler Baumhoer, left, and Dakota Wolfe chat while camping outside Best Buy on Wednesday in preparation for the upcoming Black Friday sale. The two snagged head-of-the-line bragging rights after arriving to set up their campsite Tuesday, a full 56 hours before Best Buy’s sale began.

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Rhonda Cunningham and her daughter, Amber, were in the line outside Jefferson City's Kmart at 5:15 a.m. Thursday — 45 minutes before the store opened its doors for the first of three special holiday shopping events in a 24-hour period. Her family’s Thanksgiving celebration is Sunday, so Thursday is a day for what’s become a family shopping tradition.